CVE-2020-26421
Moderate
CVE-2020-26421
Crash in USB HID protocol dissector and possibly other dissectors in Wireshark 3.4.0 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file.
Exploit probability
2.6%
Published
December 11, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
29 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-26421
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Crash in USB HID protocol dissector and possibly other dissectors in Wireshark 3.4.0 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.8 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-26421.json
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16958
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M75HYXU36SP6GHIDPHNZGJKEO6TX4C4Y/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YHWDZPWQJMLK64VFDWJC5SEGPNH6Y72Z/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-12
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-17.html